Diners at restaurants along rue Saint-Augustin panicked and took cover.

A woman said “we were relaxed, drinking among girlfriends and then all of a sudden we heard gun shots. Then, panic erupted on the street. We didn’t understand and our waiters said, ‘quick, quick, run, go find shelter.’ So we hid. I was curious so I wanted to leave the restaurant. As I walked out I saw a guy lying on the ground. It looked like he was dead. Then police arrived. There were a lot of them,” the witness told BFM TV.

French President Emmanual Macron reacted to the attack on Twitter.

“France once again paid the price of blood but does not give an inch to the enemies of freedom,” Macron said.

Interior minister Gerard Collomb also tweeted about the attack.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said: “Tonight, our city was murdered. My first thoughts go to the family of the victim who lost their life. I think as much of the injured and their loves ones. I want to tell them that all Parisians are by their sides.”